WEBVTT - There’s No Place Like… (“Home” S1 E16) 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:05.240 And that's what you really missed with Jenna and Kevin 0:00:05.519 --> 0:00:12.800 an iHeartRadio podcast really missed Welcome to you. No Jenna, No, 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:15.760 this is and that's what you really missed the Glee 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:23.280 Rewatch podcast. I'm Jenna, I'm Kevin, and this week we 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:29.600 are talking about season one episode sixteen, Home Home, directed 0:00:29.640 --> 0:00:33.960 by Paris Barclay, his second episode of season one that 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.519 he directs. It's very exciting. I love Paris. It originally 0:00:37.520 --> 0:00:41.879 aired on April twenty seventh, twenty ten, the day before 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:45.000 my twenty fourth birthday. Oh my god, it was so 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.839 long ago, and the day before Harry's twenty eight. That's right, 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.760 and so Jenna, Jenna and Harry have the same birthday, 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:55.240 along with many other people that I know. Is a 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:59.320 very popular day for twenty It's very popular. Okay, the 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.240 number one do anything for your birthday? We went to 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.320 were you there? We went to Tokyo delve Um. It's 0:01:05.360 --> 0:01:08.400 a sushi restaurant in North Hollywood and they have like 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.800 dancers that dress up like and they sing sync and 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:15.360 they lit like yeah exactly yeah, and we got a 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.560 sushi boat and Telly was there. I think you were there, Kevin. 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.040 I think I was and it's it was just really 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:26.600 fun and low key. So that was you, um, what 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:29.559 was going on in the world. The number one song 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:33.760 was nothing on You? How does that? Bob? Nothing on You? 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:40.440 Oh right, okay, nothing You? Oh you? And this was 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.200 Bob's I think it was his first single and Bruno Mars. 0:01:44.360 --> 0:01:47.600 Oh really yes, and this was a big thing for 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:50.160 Bruno Mars. Yeah, How to Train Your Dragon was the 0:01:50.240 --> 0:01:53.800 number one movie in the country. I have seen that. UM. 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.960 The day before this episode came out, we went to 0:01:56.560 --> 0:02:00.600 UM evening with Glee, a special screening and panel for 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:04.560 the Television Academy and North Hollywood. Do you remember that. 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:06.680 I remember going to that big, long panel. We talked 0:02:06.680 --> 0:02:10.080 about the show was moderated, we talked about lots of 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.560 fun stuff, and then at the end of it, all 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.720 the people who are there who could buy tickets come 0:02:16.240 --> 0:02:20.640 bum rushing the stage and I remember thinking like feeling like, 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:22.880 oh my god, all these people want our autograph and 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.640 our photos. It was like overwhelming. It was pretty crazy. Yeah, 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.520 and this was also our first TV Academy event. So 0:02:29.560 --> 0:02:32.560 you do these things, you hope that TV Academy members 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:37.560 are in the audience, and so therefore you know the 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:43.000 aspiration is that we get nominated for Emmy's Coming Out. Yes, right, Okay, 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.440 so this one is a lot of guest stars. We 0:02:45.560 --> 0:02:50.639 have Christian Channowith, John Gruff, Romi Rose momd and Mike O'Malley. 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.840 Oh what a great stacked lineup of guest stars. Curly, 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:59.360 we are so so lucky. There's a couple of fun 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:02.880 facts about this episode. Okay, this, um, this is this 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:05.440 one isn't fun. There's no jama that's not fun. We 0:03:05.520 --> 0:03:08.000 need jamak. But it's the first episode where the title 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:11.799 is the actual name of a song. There's the first 0:03:11.800 --> 0:03:16.080 episode where there wasn't like a Rachel centric storyline. Wow, 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:23.160 that's crazy. And already we are at our one hundredth performance. 0:03:23.720 --> 0:03:29.360 Good lord, Yeah, crazy beautiful. When Amber sings Beautiful towards 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.680 the end of this episode, that's our one hundred Wow 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:35.200 Wow wow wow wow pretty wid Yeah. So the songs 0:03:35.200 --> 0:03:38.800 in this episode are Fire by Bruce Springsteen. A House 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:42.800 Is Not at Home by Dion Warwick. B Backrock just 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:47.160 recently passed away and one of the greatest songwriters of 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:52.320 all time, and it felt nice to watch this episode 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:56.480 and hear some of his music and this um one, 0:03:56.560 --> 0:04:02.480 Let's spelled to answer by Barbara full By Christina and 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:07.200 Home from the Whiz. You know, wow, big episode. These 0:04:07.200 --> 0:04:11.400 are legends, legendary songs and songwriters and singers. Get We 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.600 have Dion Warwick, Barbara Streiss and Bruce Springsteen, Dame and 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:19.200 Bert Backreck in one episode. That's this is when we're 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:22.640 starting to get like the bigger artists, the bigger songs, 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.279 like the catalogs are just being kind of like given 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:31.240 gifted to us a you know, alamadonna. Um let's get 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:33.960 into it. This is a fun episode. Yeah, I really 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:38.320 enjoyed this episode. Um So. The eppisode summary. First of all, 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.400 everyone is feeling displaced from their homes in some way 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:47.560 or another, whether metaphorically or physically. New directions. Finn, Jesse, 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:53.640 Saint James, Mercedes and Kurt Will April Rhodes. So one 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:57.400 of the main storylines is that Mercedes, Um and Kurt 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:03.520 joined the Cheerios and Mercedes is asked by Sue in 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:07.919 preparation for their big magazine interview where Sue is named 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:11.040 coach of the past two thousand years, that Mercedes has 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.560 to drop ten pounds. The whole Cheerios team has to 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.560 lose pounds weight, but Mercedes has given an assignment of 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:24.800 ten pounds, and so we start out with Sue saying 0:05:24.839 --> 0:05:29.120 that Mercedes, your chords have had more fantastic runs than 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.400 a Kenyan track team, but that look will simply not 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:39.560 do oh yeah, oh indeed, and then she says that 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:43.279 she wants Mercedes to lose weight so she can be 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.200 wearing a gender appropriate costume by the end of the week. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:51.719 When Tracy Pendergrass gets there for the interview, not great. 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:55.400 So they're in the cafeteria and Mercedes is eating a 0:05:55.440 --> 0:06:00.200 salad and some grilled chicken and you know, waters, I think. 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:03.919 Kurt says, that's what you're eating. You have a week 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.440 to lose ten pounds. It's like having to lose one 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:12.360 of my butt cheeks. And Kurt says, look, Mercedes, this 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.159 is not Please, don't mess up our chance to finally 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:19.080 fit in and be with the cool crowd. So Mercedes 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:22.240 is feeling the stakes of this and not wanting to 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:27.560 disappoint Kurt. So Mercedes then goes and asks Brittany and 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.400 Becky and Santana how they stay so skinny and they 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:34.839 share the master cletons. Do you remember that this cleans 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.640 was like all the rage at that time. Kevin. We're like, 0:06:39.400 --> 0:06:43.320 you're whole Foods at January first of the new year, 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.680 and they had like all of the things set out 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:49.800 for pepper thing where you just drank that in water 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.680 for a week. I had so many I think I 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:54.920 was the only person not doing that. We did a 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:59.360 lot of cleanses on set. Yeah. Um, and we see 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:03.400 Quinn like kind of from a far sea Mercedes and like, 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:11.920 you know, longingly, like knowing what she's going through. Um, 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:15.720 So Mercedes is at this way in right, and she 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:23.160 she gains two pounds and Sue is like, no, you 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:25.920 have four days to lose the waiter. You're out and 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.160 threatens her by saying, yeah, you have to do other 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:33.960 thing like you like soon you'll be like like Becky 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.000 has a way in as well. Right right, It's like, oh, 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.520 you're gonna be like every other American teenaged girl and 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:44.960 start hiding bags of bile and vomit around your parents' 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.400 house like it's in your living your parents living room 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:51.800 or something like that. Yeah, it's not not good, but 0:07:52.640 --> 0:07:54.760 this is one of my favorite things we ever did. 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:59.440 I didn't realize it happened this soon oh, yes, season two. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:04.560 In my head, this is this is it? Well back nine. Honestly, 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.880 the back nine kind of feels a season two. Yeah, 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.400 so I was gonna say what I because we had 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:12.560 such a big gap in real life between the first thirteen. 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:15.680 In the back nine, the back nine feels like a 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:19.640 completely different, Yes, experience, it does, it does. There was 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.680 a time off, there was it steels separate. Okay, So 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:25.920 we're in the cafeteria and Mercedes is with Tina and 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:30.640 Artie and she is starving herself because obviously she has 0:08:30.760 --> 0:08:35.120 four days till these ten pounds, which is wild, and 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:37.880 she starts hallucinating and she starts to see us as 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:42.160 food and Amber gives such a wonderful performance in this 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:45.120 whole episode. I was so excited for her, so proud 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.679 of her. Um this was like her big storyline. I 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.920 remember her really taking this super seriously and you know, really, 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:55.520 you know, just doing doing the deed. She is amazing. 0:08:55.720 --> 0:08:59.240 So but I remember us coming out in these outfits 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:05.559 and try to laugh at her and ruin her takes 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:07.560 because she was, you know, she had to kind of 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:12.520 be serious and this was so ridiculous that we looked 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.840 like this. Kevin and It's one of those things where 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.080 Paris is very serious. He can be fun and silly, 0:09:20.120 --> 0:09:24.000 but like, yeah, you know, Amber had a really serious 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:27.200 thing to portray her and just don't screw this up. 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:33.079 And you and I and Leah and John. I was 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:40.560 sitting in that back room in these costumes looking a fool. Yeah, 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.440 and like we couldn't look at each other. So like 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.720 I remember and this actual scene sitting around the table, 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.560 you and I could not make eye contact with one another. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.000 We had to just like the only one we can 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.199 stay in this is to look at Amber and just 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:57.880 remember we have to give it to her and not 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:04.000 mess this up. Lines. I'm literally a piece of cake. 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:13.080 I also how cool this was because this person that 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:16.280 had made costumes for like Katy Perry or something that's 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.559 right and had to build it around your wheelchair. Yes, 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:23.520 they had to get like three people to lift the 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:28.800 piece of Like when the take was over, I couldn't 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:36.160 just get up. I had like zero arms. It's so funny. 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.800 I'm sorry, Oh god, it was one of my favorite 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:45.120 things we ever did, truly. Yeah, Okay, so basically during 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:46.840 all of this, we're just saying that we love her 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:49.160 the way she is in these cleanses. People don't it 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.760 doesn't work and you know, blah blah blah, and then 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.480 she um she runs away and we see Leah and 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:59.200 Croff in their ridiculous costumes. This is Groff's second episode also, 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.360 and he's in a bird her and she passes out 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:08.600 in the cafeteria and we so she ends up should 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.439 we cut to her in the nurse's office, right, and 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:16.400 such a sweet scene. I think the scene is beautiful, beautiful, 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:21.079 And we haven't seen Quinn and Mercedes together either. It's 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.760 like the budding relationship and friendship that they have. And 0:11:25.679 --> 0:11:30.240 Quinn tells her that she's like, eat the granilla bar. 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:32.600 She's like, I'm not hungry, and she's like, yes, yes 0:11:32.640 --> 0:11:35.880 you are. I've been there. And then she says, M, 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.080 did they start looking like food before you passed down? 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:43.880 She's like, M, been there. And Quinn tells her that 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.840 her relationship to food changed when she got pregnant because 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:50.559 she's realizing she's doing everything she can to fuel her 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.680 body for this little thing. Then why can't she do 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.880 that for herself? And I thought that was really beautiful. 0:11:57.320 --> 0:12:01.160 I think that's an incredibly well written line. Yes, I've 0:12:01.160 --> 0:12:03.840 been thinking about that line all day because how that 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.200 translates to a lot of us when we get cut 0:12:06.280 --> 0:12:09.600 up in fad diets and things about if you're willing 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:11.400 to do this for somebody else and make sure everybody 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.600 else is eating correctly, like why aren't we yeah doing 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.920 that or caring about ourselves. It's one of those moments 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:22.560 where we were just addressed as desserts and then all 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.880 of a sudden, you have Amber sitting there, Mercedes sitting 0:12:25.880 --> 0:12:30.679 there crying right talking about her body, and then Quinn 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:34.960 saying yeah, like yeah, I get it, And here's why. 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.640 It was a really powerful moment and one that because 0:12:39.600 --> 0:12:42.400 you know, I think Paris made a point of doing 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:46.600 this in every episode to balance that out perfectly. Yeah, 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:50.600 where you still believed both realities. Yeah, and like again, 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.440 we're now tackling eating disorders, we're tackling kind of weight loss, 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:57.440 we're tackling all of this. Like Quinn's line about saying 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.640 like she's lucky because she's always been home in her 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:02.640 body and don't not to let suit take that away 0:13:02.679 --> 0:13:05.400 from her. I mean, it was so beautiful and it 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:09.079 really resonated with me because, like I obviously in this industry, 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:13.040 like I've struggled with my body and just seeing yourself 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:17.480 on camera every day it's like jarring, and um, you know, 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.959 having Emma like my body, my body has changed my 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:25.120 mentality in the fueling of my body and also like 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:29.360 nutrition wise, like wanting to eat well, not for weight loss, 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:32.000 but to eat to fuel myself so that like I 0:13:32.040 --> 0:13:33.959 can have I can live a long life. That's really 0:13:33.960 --> 0:13:35.400 like the way I look at it now, it's just 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:40.400 so crazy but very existential. But um, it's really it 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:53.920 was really beautifully done. As you said. Now we get 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:56.920 to we're cutting, we're cutting a head a bit, but 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:01.280 we're just getting through this whole Mercedes beautiful Mercedes storyline 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.360 where Tracy Pendergrass shows up and Sue was expecting a woman, 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:10.160 right and he shows up with the PEP rally and 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:16.280 the interview and Mercedes switches up the plan and she 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:22.520 decides to come out and take Quinn's advice and sing, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:26.800 you know, says, cherios aren't about you know, looking caught 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.960 and you know, being cool, but like actually just really 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:33.360 loving each other and loving ourselves and learning how to 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:37.000 do that every day. So meanwhile, Sue's freaking out because 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:39.640 Tracy Pendergrass said that this is going to be like 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:44.280 a hard hitting expose, and then the number that she 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:48.280 had planned doesn't happen. Mercedes comes out and god yeah 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.800 and sings this number and gets the glee club and 0:14:51.840 --> 0:14:55.560 some fellow classmates to come up and sing with her 0:14:56.200 --> 0:15:00.440 and this, and then Amber does this beautiful one hundred number. 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:05.480 Beautiful huh see what I did there? And I remember 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.840 shooting this and just being so proud of Amber. I 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.720 think we shot this towards the end of the episode, 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:13.680 maybe that this at home, and just watching Amber kind 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:16.400 of do this whole performance was really It's just fun 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:18.880 to be able to watch your friends do things that 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:22.680 like stretched them. And you know, Amber can wail and 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.440 do sing about just about anything, but like to watch 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:29.640 her actually act and hold this episode was like really beautiful. Yeah, tears, 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:33.000 she was providing tears. She was providing tears, and I 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:36.760 know she was nervous about that too, so um. And 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:38.880 then we get to the office the next day where 0:15:38.920 --> 0:15:41.520 Tracy says she's going to continue this interview next the 0:15:41.560 --> 0:15:46.200 next day and she's office and you know, it says 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:48.800 that he admitted that he hadn't liked Sue since in 0:15:48.920 --> 0:15:51.800 that minuting matter, and the fact that she called him 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:54.320 rerun twice made him think that she was a little 0:15:54.360 --> 0:16:01.240 bit racist. Moving on and then yeah, and then she 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:07.040 realizes he realizes that he was wrong, right, and says 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:10.400 that seeing that performance and seeing how he's she's teaching 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:16.800 her cheerios to be inclusive and positive about these things 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:20.040 that are not always respected and thought positively of in 0:16:20.160 --> 0:16:25.240 that cheerio cheerio world. And she's like, well, yeah, m 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.880 I did that on purpose. Yeah, And then we have 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.760 this moment of her admitting that he was wrong to 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.920 Mercedes about the cheerios, and we know the stakes of 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.520 trying to fit in right, which is really nice. They 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.200 have such a great friendship, do they really? Do? We 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:49.040 fall in love with Marchine? So meanwhile, Sue has blocked 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:53.200 out the entire auditorium just to I don't know, mess 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.960 with Shoe because it's too cold outside her cheeros to 0:16:57.000 --> 0:17:00.920 be rehearsing. So she has a sign up sheet in 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:07.239 her waistband and says that Will can't use the auditorium 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:10.920 after he confronts her about it, and the whole week 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:15.600 is reserved just for the cheerios taken away from their home. 0:17:16.320 --> 0:17:22.080 If you exactly displacing them. So when Will shares us 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:25.400 with the Glee Club, Rachel recommends a sit in, Puck 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:29.120 recommends that they torched the place, but mister Shoe takes 0:17:29.160 --> 0:17:31.800 upon himself to make a promise that he's going to 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.800 find them a new home for the week. Shoe goes 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:39.119 to the roller roller Rink, which in real life in 0:17:39.240 --> 0:17:43.560 La Moonlight Rollerway that we It's in every movie you see, 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.120 every TV show you see. If there's all, that's the one. 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.680 They have a great LGBT and Iron Wednesdays. You should 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.040 go check it out. Yeah, it's great. I've been several times. Yes, 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:58.600 um and lo and behold who's at the roller rink? 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:03.520 Pulling focus on the main stage. But Kristen Chenno with 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.960 aka April Rhodes And she's like, well, Schuster, I just 0:18:08.000 --> 0:18:11.080 had a sex stream about you, and then queues up 0:18:11.680 --> 0:18:14.720 a song Fire by Bruce Springsteen, hands him a mic 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:19.840 that's bedazzled, bedazzled with flames, ready for the song, and 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:22.800 they sing this great number. I would just like to 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:27.719 point out again how good Christen Chenno is as a singer. 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:32.600 I mean, I will say there are a lot of 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.800 musical theater people I mean she has her master's an opera. Yeah, 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:41.960 she's classically trained who cannot do everything what she does, 0:18:42.400 --> 0:18:44.560 she can adapt to any style of song. She is 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.280 singing on that Bruce Springsteen song, she cut out her 0:18:47.400 --> 0:18:51.800 vibrato entirely. Yeah, she's like Jesse Mahler. Yeah, she's just 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:54.720 singing this like pop rock song. Yeah, she made it 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:57.440 a pop song, but it's, you know, rock song. And 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:02.159 it's just very very very very impressive. She sings so 0:19:02.160 --> 0:19:05.119 many different genres in this one episode, and she sings 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:08.760 them differently each time. Yes, she does what is called 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:13.040 for in the song she called. We call that versatility. Yeah, 0:19:12.720 --> 0:19:15.800 it's just so I'll never get over it because it's 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:17.840 so hard to be able to do that. Yeah, she 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:21.000 can do anything with her voice. Yeah, yeah, Plato. It's 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.439 really crazy. And she's a great actress as well. Because 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.040 we get into this scene where Will sees April and 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:31.080 this like hero, I thought you were getting sober. She says, 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:33.439 I was so chatted about so bring up and studying 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:34.800 a new life that I had to stop at a 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.879 bar and get a drink just to calm down. And 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:40.320 then she lived at the bar for four months, right, 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:44.000 and then she admits that she's actually running this roller 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:48.600 rink because she's a new mistress of Buddy Leewwitz, who 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:53.600 is a strip mall tycoon, and Wills like, oh, well 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.040 we need I'm a temporary space for the glee club. 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.320 And she's like, oh, bring him here, no big deal. 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:02.560 And then Will tells April that he has to sublet 0:20:02.560 --> 0:20:06.960 his apartment because he's getting divorced. And this divorce, does 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.199 that mean you're free to date? And by date I 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:11.439 mean sleep with people, and by sleep with I mean 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.680 have sex with people people like me. Kidding, not really, 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:20.879 And so she's offering, it's so good, she's offering to 0:20:21.680 --> 0:20:25.000 sublet his place. And it's like, I'm gonna need to 0:20:25.040 --> 0:20:28.960 come see the funk Hua or fing fong whatever it's called. Oh, 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.800 and so she is gonna weazle her way into going 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:40.320 to his home. Then mister Shu was like, Hey, new directions. 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:45.840 I got the roller rink and we're gonna go perform there. 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:50.399 Rehearse there, right, And then Kurt addresses the glee club. 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:54.600 He says, mister Shu has something to say, and he 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:56.600 just says that we all need to find a sense 0:20:56.640 --> 0:20:59.080 of place and that everybody's feeling. He's kind of like 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:02.600 naming it all, Like, you know, Finn is feeling upset 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:06.679 that their their parents are dating and you know, um, 0:21:06.880 --> 0:21:09.040 well we'll get into that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and he 0:21:09.080 --> 0:21:12.600 breaks into the song. Well he goes through Brad and 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:17.359 uh sings houses not at home? Do you actually just 0:21:17.400 --> 0:21:19.560 have the sheet music sitting there on the piano ready? 0:21:19.720 --> 0:21:25.800 But he knew, Yeah, that's how it works, say, and 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:29.000 it's it's an uncomfortable performance. He's emotional, he's like working 0:21:29.000 --> 0:21:32.360 through things and Finn's like, what is happening? Right? But 0:21:32.400 --> 0:21:37.120 then which I forgot about, we cut to Finn singing 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:41.359 in this number, Finn singing, his tradition of singing to 0:21:41.440 --> 0:21:45.920 enimate objects continues, and he somehow makes it work for 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:49.000 him because God blessed Scory, like you you know, he 0:21:49.040 --> 0:21:51.320 can make anything work. But of course he had to 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:55.480 sing to the chair and to the urn of his 0:21:55.480 --> 0:22:00.640 his late father. Um, it was weird. It was weirder 0:22:00.640 --> 0:22:04.199 than him singing to the ultrasound. Definitely, at least it 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:06.560 was quick. It was really quick. No, no, yeah, I 0:22:06.600 --> 0:22:08.960 would also say I in this episode, I noticed a 0:22:08.960 --> 0:22:13.920 lot Corey's physicality and he was a twenty something year 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:17.600 old man playing a sixteen year old right, and I 0:22:17.640 --> 0:22:20.879 feel like he does such a good job of embodying 0:22:21.160 --> 0:22:25.159 the physicality of like a teenager. Okay, Golden Retriever, I 0:22:25.160 --> 0:22:29.040 don't know how my body moves yet. Yeah, goofy, goofyman Coverston, 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:33.480 You're right, Yes he didn't. He didn't quite inhabit his body, 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:38.080 but Corey did so exactly. Finn didn't. All right, So 0:22:38.119 --> 0:22:40.760 we get to April. Okay, you take this, Kevin, because 0:22:40.760 --> 0:22:45.560 this is your favorite. This is maybe my favorite song 0:22:45.720 --> 0:22:53.879 ever in this show. I know nobody understands this. Maybe 0:22:53.880 --> 0:22:57.960 it's top three, I don't know, it might be number one. 0:22:58.119 --> 0:23:04.040 I love this number. I love it because I think 0:23:04.080 --> 0:23:09.639 it is such an excellent mashup and the arrangement of 0:23:09.680 --> 0:23:14.359 the song, the harmonies of this number are I don't know, 0:23:14.440 --> 0:23:16.040 I don't know what it is. And I will also 0:23:16.200 --> 0:23:21.879 say watching this um actual number in the show, Paris's 0:23:22.000 --> 0:23:27.040 music video directing fully comes in handy here. Yeah, because yes, 0:23:27.480 --> 0:23:31.239 the way this is so simple but yet choreographed so perfectly, Like, 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:34.480 never did I ever think I would be so enthralled 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:36.959 with people laying in bed belting for their lives. Yea 0:23:38.400 --> 0:23:42.280 and it's beautiful and how it cuts together. It's fully 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:45.840 music video. This is absolutely someone who knows musicality and 0:23:45.960 --> 0:23:48.600 music video. Yes, that's all I kept thinking, I haven't 0:23:48.640 --> 0:23:51.240 but I haven't heard this song in a long time, 0:23:51.280 --> 0:23:55.800 like unlike you, And so I was reminded with a 0:23:55.840 --> 0:23:58.399 slap in the face with how good number. That's how 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:00.960 good it is? Yeah, you get struck with it across 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:05.440 the face. Yep, it is a masterclass. And I think 0:24:05.480 --> 0:24:08.119 this scene too, right before leading up to it, when 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:11.440 April shows up at Will's house, it's like, I'm gonna 0:24:11.520 --> 0:24:13.479 check it out, and he's like, you can sleep on 0:24:13.520 --> 0:24:15.439 the couch. I'm not really cool with this, but no 0:24:15.520 --> 0:24:18.680 funny business sleeping on the couch, and she's like dressed 0:24:18.680 --> 0:24:21.199 in this crazy outfit, bought her bag. She brings out 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:23.399 a bottle of wine, and then it goes into this 0:24:23.520 --> 0:24:26.240 really obviously it's weird. They're singing to each other in 0:24:26.280 --> 0:24:31.240 the house. Whatever, well, right, we'll buy it. And then 0:24:32.359 --> 0:24:35.840 it's this really beautiful moment for both of them feeling 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:38.760 displaced and this house. They're both around people, they're not 0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:45.360 that comfortable within this house, but lonely and how they 0:24:45.359 --> 0:24:48.080 can find It's also one of those things too, where 0:24:48.160 --> 0:24:52.640 this song the lyrics really don't apply to their situation, 0:24:52.920 --> 0:24:56.080 but the power of music, of how you can pull 0:24:56.359 --> 0:24:59.480 from a song what you need to to apply to 0:24:59.520 --> 0:25:04.359 your life is what's happening. And I just think, you know, 0:25:04.440 --> 0:25:10.280 Adam Andrews some crazy work on the arrangement. Yeah yeah 0:25:10.400 --> 0:25:16.440 it Um, Kristen and Matt just sounds so good together. 0:25:16.800 --> 0:25:19.680 I mean, two Broadway stars right there. Yeah, but that's 0:25:19.920 --> 0:25:22.439 like it doesn't necessarily sound like no, no, a musical 0:25:22.440 --> 0:25:27.760 theater song singing is you're right between? Yeah, it is 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:30.640 somewhere between, and it is theatrical. It's over the top, 0:25:30.760 --> 0:25:34.960 but there you just put that song on. You just oh, 0:25:35.400 --> 0:25:38.480 that's so funny. I an't about watching the video at 0:25:38.480 --> 0:25:42.760 some point because I think that also will inform me 0:25:42.960 --> 0:25:46.399 in a different um anyway. Okay, so so after this 0:25:46.560 --> 0:25:50.560 beautiful number, that's one of three. Now, I know we 0:25:50.600 --> 0:25:56.760 can break it down if you want. The April tells well, 0:25:56.840 --> 0:25:59.600 Will says that um at the roller rank that they 0:25:59.600 --> 0:26:02.840 shouldn't a habit of sleeping in the bed together. And 0:26:02.880 --> 0:26:04.639 then Will says, what do you do in April? Like 0:26:04.720 --> 0:26:08.280